The Adverts Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts 2LP

Fire Records reissue the 1978 classic debut punk record Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts on gatefold 2LP. Released after an ever-growing live following and a string of successful chart hits, The Adverts' debut has cemented its place in punk rock history. Now, this 2LP release includes an extra LP, with 12 extra tracks made up of single recordings and live bonus tracks. From the sonic Armageddon which ushers in "One Chord Wonders" through to the deliriously protracted fade of "Great British Mistake," Crossing the Red Sea never puts a wrong foot forward. Created at the height of punk, recorded with all the venom and passion which gave the era such vitality, Crossing the Red Sea was at once a statement of intent and a bellow of defiance, a refusal to take anything for granted, even its own brilliance. More than that, though, the album defined and thus became the precious moment in time when the establishment rules of rock fell away, and new ones still had to be carved out. And by those brittle standards, the Adverts weren't simply crossing the Red Sea, they were parting it.

A devastating debut, one of the finest albums not only of the punk era, but of the 1970s as a whole, Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts was the summation of a year's worth of gigging, honing a repertoire that - jagged, jarring, and frequently underplayed though it was - nevertheless bristled with hits, both commercial and cultural....